Siddhartha Basu

Siddhartha Basu is an Indian television producer-director and quiz show host, most known as producer-director of shows like, Kaun Banega Crorepati , and Dus Ka Dum . He is Chairman and Managing Director of Big Synergy Media Ltd., established in 1988 as Synergy Media Ltd., which produces these shows. Starting in 1977 as a documentary film maker and directing TV programs, in 1985 he became a quiz show host with "Quiz Time" on the Doordarshan, today he widely regarded as the father of television quiz shows in India.